Month: April 2008

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Building a Culture of Innovation: A Few Essentials

Innovation is the currency of competitive advantage.  A culture that fosters innovation requires an organization-wide commitment to creative thinking and problem solving. Innovation must become routine, not a random or serendipitous accomplishment. It must be central to the way business gets done, not marginal. It must excite and motivate people, not scare them. To build […]

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Leading Change: Easy or Hard to Do?

I was reading an article in the April, 2008 issue of CA Magazine a few days ago entitled “Managing Change the Right Way”  in which the author, Michael Burns, contends that it is a relatively easy thing to accomplish. Mr. Burns’ thesis is as follows  “There is a widely held view that employees are inherently resistant to […]

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